Family Group of Jesse Hardy

JESSE HARDY ( Moses, Jacob, Thomas, Thomas ) was born August 22, 1777 in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and died December 12, 1846 in Hoskinsville, Noble County, Ohio. He married BRIDGET REED September 29, 1798, daughter of JOHN REED.

Notes for JESSE HARDY:

Time Line for Jesse Hardy: ... developed from research data

1777, Aug. 21 b. Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts
1798, Sept. 29 m. Bridget Reed
1801, Feb. 13 Lydia Ann Hardy birth; Wayne County, New York
1808, March 30 Betsy Hardy birth; Penobscot, Hancock, Maine
1816, June 22 Moses D. Hardy birth; Penobscot, Hancock, Maine
1829 Hardy family; steamboat on the Erie Canal to Cleveland, Ohio.
1846, Dec. 12 d. Hoskinsville, Noble County, Ohio;
Internment Hoskinsville Cemetery, Belle Valley, Noble County, Ohio. 3

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"The maternal grandfather was Jesse Hardy, who was a native of Scotland, but had emigrated to this country, and spent the greater part of his life in the New England States. Late in life he removed to Noble County OH and there died when past 75 years of age. His occupation had also been a farmer. His wife was Bridget Reed, who came of Scotch-Irish descent, and whose father, John Reed, served throughout the Revolutionary War, and was one of the patriots who threw the tea into Boston Harbor. He was in a great many battles, but was never wounded, and lived to an extreme old age, being more than 100 at the time of his demise. "   1

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Moved to Wayne County, New York about 1823/24. In 1829 they started by steamboat on the Erie Canal for Ohio. It took two weeks to make it to Cleveland. Jesse Hardy was a prosperous farmer and prominent citizen of Noble County, Ohio. Jesse died at Hoskinsville, Ohio 12 Dec 1846; his wife Bridget died at Hoskinsville 19 June 1862.   2

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Hoskinsville is in Noble Township, which was organized in 1819 and which remained a part of Morgan County until the creation of Noble County in 1851. The village was platted in 1839 and named for Colonel Erastus Hoskins, its first postmaster, who had come to Ohio from Connecticut.

Notes for BRIDGET REED:

Time Line for Bridget Reed ... developed from research data

1780, May 3 b. Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts
1798, Sept. 29 m. Jesse Hardy
1801, Feb. 13 Lydia Ann Hardy birth; Wayne County, New York
1808, March 30 Betsy Hardy birth; Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine
1816, June 22 Moses D. Hardy birth; Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine
1862, June 19 d. Hoskinsville, Noble County, Ohio;
Internment Hoskinsville Cemetery, Belle Valley, Noble County, Ohio. 3

Children of JESSE HARDY and BRIDGET REED

  1. LYDIA ANN HARDY, b. February 13, 1801, Wayne County, New York; d. July 14, 1838, Arcadia, Wayne County, New York; m. JOHN HOWLAND, Abt. 1817, Phillips Township, Somerset County, Maine.
     
  2. BETSY HARDY, b. March 30, 1808, Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine; m. SIDNEY WOODWORTH.
     
  3. MOSES D. HARDY, b. June 22, 1816, Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine; d. Hoskinsville, Noble County, Ohio; m. HANNAH WESTCOTT.
     
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Endnotes

1. Unknown Author; George W. Howland; Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois; Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1889; p. 809.   read page for G. W. Howland
2. Wall, Mann & Hall, pub., Illustrated Atlas of Noble County, Ohio (Philadelphia, 1876), 35; Watkins, Noble County, 489, 496 (et passim.)
3. Find a Grave; Created by, Pamela Myers-Grewell; Record added, Mar 17, 2008, Find A Grave Memorial# 25341563
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